What we’re looking at here is the end of an era. The date is May 31st, 1953 – the final day of streetcar service along Santa Monica Blvd. east of Fairfax Ave. Actually, I’m surprised it was this early as I would have guessed the beginning of the end (of LA’s public transportation network) would have come later in the 1950s.

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